Monday, October 19, 2009

Today's blog feature: Bono, Obama and Elvis sing "Mysterious Ways".

NY Times guest columnist Bono, singer for rock group U2, chimed in over the weekend on Obama winning the Nobel. He tries desperately to make the case that Obama was somehow a legitimate nobel laureate (sorry for the oxymoron) because of these 36 words uttered by The Obama during his UN speech last month:

OBAMA: “We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”

When I read that quote from Obama, I get all goey and teary-eyed like an Irish folksinger idealist. I can hardly wait for the 2010 MDG summit! Will it be chaired by Obama, Khadafy and Ahkmadeenadude in matching Libyan wrdrobes?

This is just what the impoverished third-world needs! Obama has already demonstrated his ability to end poverty as we know it in this country, right? All that's left is for Obama to cede what remains of our sovereignty to the UN, and the billion or so folks earning less than $1 per day will start making a fair wage of $2 per day! (of course with the rapidly plummeting dollar, the future value of $2 American is about 5 pesos next year, but it is the thought that counts). .

Bono: The Nobel Peace Prize is the rest of the world saying, “Don’t blow it.”

But that’s not just directed at Mr. Obama. It’s directed at all of us. What the president promised was a “global plan,” not an American plan.

Me: Yikes! Me smells another "stimulus".

Bono: In the same week that Mr. Obama won the Nobel, the United States was ranked as the most admired country in the world, leapfrogging from seventh to the top of the Nation Brands Index survey — the biggest jump any country has ever made... Americans are like singers — we just a little bit, kind of like to be loved.

Then stick to singing, Mr. Bono. No offense sir, but I wouldn't want Obama taking advice on economic and foreign policy from Spicolo either. It's freedom and capitalism that has fueled our economic engine and led to so much wealth and humanitarian aid the world over, not Obama's brand of socialist confiscation and redistribution.

4 comments:

Bono is nutz! Kind of reminds me of a John Hinckley poem titled, Bloody Love. After hearing of Hinckley's not guilty verdict, Foster was "horrified" and the wave of emotions returned again. She was further angered by a poem published in the 1982 National Enquirer. The poem's author? John Hinckley. The poem contained the lines "I have come to shoot you down with my bloody gun . . . look here at my bloody knife, I think I'll stab you first, deep into your bloody heart, it should quench my thirst." See the parallel?...they are both frickin' nuts. So, Hinckley could just as well of wrote this propoganda and I would give it the same credibility. But Spicolo? C'mon Da Blade, who is Spicolo? I was trying to figure out which one of my favorite movies you were referring to; Brian's Song (Brian Piccolo)or Fast Times At Ridgemount High (Spicoli). Now, since I believe you were referring to Spicoli, I must take issue with you putting him in the same context as Bono. Jeff Spicoli is quoted in the movie as saying, "What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it?." Now that makes a helluva lot more sense than Bono's poem of Elvis.

Chuck- Makes as much sense as Hannah Montana as secretary of state.dr hirkimer- I knew you'd remember that! Hinckley and Bono, foookin poets of our time. As for Spicolo, yes you guessed correctly. This is all I have to say to you about that.

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